Marcia Gay Harden
Place of Birth: La Jolla, California
Biography:
The American actress named Marcia Gay Harden was born on August 17, 1959 in La Jolla, California. She is the daughter of a military man, so her adolescence has not been very permissive, but it is believed that this is why Marcia went to Europe to study and ended up obtaining a bachelor’s degree at the University of Texas in Theater in 1983.
Marcia has completed her training in a theater program in New York, after which she began her acting career, and this is how in 1990 she participated in the film “Death among the flowers to Verna”. Then, two years later, she began to be appreciated by critics when she managed to attract attention in the movie “Used People,” in which the actress played a single mother with alcohol problems. And it was in this same 1992, that Marcia ends up consolidating her career when she participates in the biographical telefilm “Sinatra”, where she embodies the life of Ava Gardner.
Then, after a year of hard work, he was presented with the opportunity to join the cast of “Tensa Esperanza”, followed by his next participation in “The Story of Spirit Grill”, in which he played a young woman who overcame her shyness after meet another woman her age with a stormy past.
Later, when 1996 arrived, Marcia’s lucky year, the actress married Thaddaeus Scheel, and with regard to work in the same year she shot “The First Wives Club”, a film with which she is classified within feminist cinema until arriving new papers in films like “Flubber”, “Desperate measures” or “You know Joe Black”.
Marcia has closed her cycle of approximate good offers, with an incredible award for her work, although she did not opt for the Golden Globes or the Screen Actors Guild, she surprisingly won the Oscar for best supporting actress against very strong candidates.
Filmography
- 1989 Death among the flowers
- 1990 Used People
- 1992 Tense waiting
- 1992 The Hugh Wilson First Wives Club
- 1993 Harold Becker desperate measures
- 1993 flubber
- 1994 Do you know Joe Black? Martin Brest
- 1995 Requiem for a Dream Darrien Arfossky
- 1995 Space Cowboys Clint Eastwood
- 1997 Pollock Ed Harris
- 1998 Afternoons with Gaudí Susan Seidman
- 1999 The Smile of Mona Lisa Mike Newell
- 2002 House of the baby John Sayles
- 2003 Mystic River Clint Eastwood
- 2004 Welcome to Mooseport
- 2005 A padilla of balls Richard Linkrater
- 2006 The Hoax Lasse Hallström
- 2006 American Dreamz